Cooking and baking today are fast, easy, and convenient. You can find an appliance or tool for everything, and an instruction on how to make anything with fairly easy steps. Home cooks have never had it better and great home cooking has become more normal than not. However, back in the days before all of […]
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Everyone wants to be healthy to some degree or another. Even if you want to eat nothing but pizza and beer every day, you’d still probably like to maintain your weight and an overall sense of good health when you do it. But the world doesn’t work that way. In fact, the world works against […]
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Spite is a powerful motivator in life, even if it’s often employed with little thought or consideration and, in hindsight, comes across as something closer to ignorance. Nothing combines all of those elements better than our penchant, as a species, to childishly rename a thing if we become angry with whoever is most associated with […]
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Taste is a very subjective thing. Some people love pineapple on pizza, some hate it. Some folks are happy to eat a vegan diet, others are practically full-time carnivores. But what accounts for those foods that can change their taste over time. Is that you and your personal tastes changing over time, or is the […]
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The world is more at our fingertips today than ever before. You can head out in any big city and enjoy the cuisine from dozens of countries or, if you’re more adventurous, head to the internet and track down recipes and videos showing you how to make food from literally every corner of the globe. […]
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By the time you’re old enough to walk your parents will probably have put some serious effort into trying to get you to understand the difference between what’s safe to eat and what isn’t. We have symbols on packaging to let us know if some things are poisonous and then rules and regulations for other […]
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How many of us know how the apple got its name, or the onion? We take these words for granted because they slip right off the tongue, but most of us don’t know where they come from. Even the words ‘fruit’ and ‘vegetable’ are thrown around like they sprang up out of nowhere. In fact, […]
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For a lot of people food is something in which they can take joy and comfort. We indulge in junk food, try to eat healthy food, make too much food to celebrate special occasions and, thanks to the internet, we can learn about new and exotic foods to try from all over the world. But […]
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When you look at the entirety of our culinary history there are thousands, if not millions, of dishes that have been developed all around the world across time. There’s no way that anyone could ever sample them all, and there’s no way that anyone would ever like them all, either. And maybe that’s part of […]
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Given America’s well-known predilection for ice cream it may surprise someone to learn the United States does not lead the world in ice cream consumption. Despite consuming a bit more than five and a half gallons per person of the frozen concoction per person annually, the United States lags behind New Zealand in personal ice […]
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